Principal Persons Mentioned

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Poet, statesman, and essayist for the Spectator, Tatler and Guardian. An early supporter of AP, but later estranged over the Iliad translation.

Allen, Ralph (1694-1764) Postmaster, philanthropist, and friend of AP from 1736; the model for Fielding's Squire Allworthy in Tom Jones.

Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735) Physician in Ordinary to Queen Anne, 1709-14; author of History o!John Bull (1712), member of the Scriblerus Club; contributor to Three Hours after Marriage (1717); and close friend of AP (see Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 1734).

Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732) Bishop of Rochester, Jacobite sympathiser, and friend of AP.

Bathurst, Allen, Earl Bathurst (1684-1775) Tory peer (1712), close friend of AP, and addressee of the third Moral Essay (Epistle to Bathurst).

Bentley, Richard (1662-1742) Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, distinguished classical scholar, but for AP arch• representative of verbal critics; as in The Dunciad and Sober Advice from Horace.

Bethel, Hugh (died 1748) MP for Pontefract, AP's long-time friend; see the Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace.

Blount, Martha (1690-1762) Younger Blount sister, AP's main female friend from youth and his principal legatee.

Blount, Teresa Maria (1688-1759) Elder sister of Martha and early friend of AP; they became estranged after 1721.

Bolingbroke, Henry StJohn, Viscount (1678-1751) Statesman, Jacobite Tory, philosopher, lifelong friend and mentor of AP.

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Boyle, John, Earl of Orrery (1707-62) Friend and correspondent of both Swift and AP after 1730.

Boyle, Richard, third Earl of Burlington (1695--1753) Patron, statesman, close friend of AP after 1715; residences at Burlington House (London) and Chiswick.

Broome, William (1689-1745) AP's assistant translator on the Iliad and Odyssey projects.

Brydges, James, Duke of Chandos (1673-1744) Patron of Handel, and friend of Gay and AP.

Burlington, Lord See Boyle, Richard.

Burnet, Thomas (1694-1753) Youngest son of Bishop Burnet, member of Addison's circle, author of several attacks on AP.

Caryll, John (1667-1736) Squire of West Grinstead, Sussex, early correspondent with AP (from 1710).

Chandos, Duke of See Brydges.

Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) Actor, dramatist, Poet Laureate (1730-57), enemy of AP's from 1717, hero of The New Dunciad, 1742.

Cleland, William (1674-1741) Scottish soldier, government official, friend of AP.

Cobham, Viscount See Temple.

Combury, Lord See Hyde.

Craggs, James the younger (1686-1721) Secretary of State, involved (with his father) in the South Sea Company scandal, and friend of AP.

Cromwell, Henry (1659-1728) Elderly minor poet, London friend and correspondent of AP, 1708--12. 188 A Pope Chronology

Curll, Edmund (1675--1747) Infamous publisher of piracies and pornography, and AP's constant adversary, 1714--41.

Dennis, John (1657-1734) Dramatist, critic, AP's first and most persistently abusive opponent.

Dodsley, Robert (1703-64) Poet, playwright, and one of AP's publishers after 1735.

Dormer, James (1679-1741) Military hero, general, member of the Kit-Cat Club, acquaintance of AP, who frequently visited his house at Rousham.

Douglas, Charles, Duke of Queensberry (1698-1778) Privy Councillor to George I, and, with his Duchess, Gay's patron in the poet's latter years.

Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730) Minor poet, scholar; assisted AP with Homer translations.

Fermor, Arabella (1690?-1738) Daughter of a prominent Catholic family from Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, celebrated beauty, model for Belinda in The Rape of the Lock.

Fortescue, William (1687-1749) Barrister, Whig MP, Baron of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, and AP's close friend and legal adviser.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-51) Disobedient son of George II and father of George III; he was friendly to AP in the 1730s.

Gay, John (1685--1732) Poet, playwright (The Beggar's Opera), charter member of the Scriblerus Club, close friend of AP.

Gilliver, Lawton (died 1748) Trusted publisher of all AP's major poems 1729-37, including the epistles to Bathurst, Cobham, Burlington, Martha Blount and Arbuthnot, and the Essay on Man.

Harley, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741) Son of Robert Harley, bibliophile and collector, friend of AP and Swift. Principal Persons Mentioned 189

Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724) Chief Tory minister in 1714, statesman, bibliophile, friend of AP.

Harte, Walter (1709-74) Minor poet, miscellaneous writer, friend and admirer of AP.

Hervey, John, Baron Hervey of lckworth (1696-1743) MP, Walpole-supporter, enemy of AP, subject of 'Sporus' portrait in Epistle to Arbuthnot.

Hill, Aaron (1685-1750) Minor poet and dramatist, early antagonist then friendly correspondent of AP after 1728.

Hooke, Nathaniel (died 1763) Historian and long-time Catholic friend of AP.

Howard, Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk (1681-1767) Mistress of George II and AP's neighbour at her Marble Hill house, whose gardens he designed.

Hume, Hugh, Earl of Marchmont (1708-94) Member of the Whig opposition to Walpole, the young 'patriots'; friend to AP after 1739.

Hyde, Henry, Viscount Combury (1710-53) MP for Oxford and AP's good friend after 1735.

Jervas, Charles (1675-1739) Portraitist, fashionable painter, close friend and tutor of AP.

Kent, William (1684?-1748) Painter, designer, architect, friend of AP.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1646-1723) Portrait-painter, near neighbour at Twickenham of AP, who wrote his epitaph.

Lintot, Bernard (1675-1736) Eminent publisher and bookseller, whose press issued many of AP's works between 1712 and 1736; his son, Henry, carried on the business after 1736. 190 A Pope Chronology

Lyttelton, George (1709-73) Lord Cobham's nephew and member of the anti-Walpolian faction in Parliament in the late 1730s.

Mallet, David (1705?-65) Minor poet and dramatist of Scottish birth, AP' s correspondent and friend.

Marchmont, Lord See Hume.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) AP's close friend from 1715 until the early 1720s, thereafter his bitter enemy; in 1718, introduced inoculation for smallpox into England.

Mordaunt, Charles, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth (1658- 1735) Soldier, gardening-enthusiast, close friend of AP; residences at Bevis Mount and London.

Motte, Benjamin (died 1738) Bookseller and publisher of Gulliver's Travels and the AP-Swift Miscellanies.

Murray, William, Earl of Mansfield (1705-93) MP, later Solicitor• General and Attorney-General, and Lord Chief Justice; AP's friend after 1735 and sometimes legal adviser.

Orrery, Lord See Boyle, John.

Oxford, Lord See Harley, Robert, or Harley, Edward.

Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718) Irish-born poet, contributor to the Spectator and Guardian, and member of the Scriblerus Club; AP edited his posthumous poems.

Peterborough, Lord See Mordaunt.

Philips, Ambrose (1675?-1749) Minor poet and dramatist, AP's rival pastoralist.

Pope, Alexander (1646-1717) London merchant, AP's father.

Pope, Edith (1642-1733), nee Turner, AP's mother.

Pope, Magdalen (1679?-1749) AP's half-sister, married Charles Rackett of Hammersmith, c. 1694. Principal Persons Mentioned 191

Queensberry, Duke of See Douglas.

~ckett, Charles (died 1728?), of Hammersmith, husband of Magdalen Pope, AP's half-sister.

Richardson, Jonathan (the elder) (1665-1745) Painter, author of many sketched portraits of AP after 1733.

Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) Dramatist, first editor of Shakespeare, Poet Laureate, early friend of AP.

Sheffield, John, Earl of Mulgrave, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648--1721) Courtier, statesman, poet, Jacobite sympathiser and friend of AP, who edited his poetical works.

Spence, Joseph (1699-1768) Friend of AP, collector of anecdotes, author of an Essay on Mr Pope's Odyssey, Professor of Poetry (1728) and later Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729) Essayist, politician and dramatist, and sometimes acquaintance of AP; originated The Taller, The Spectator and The Guardian.

Suffolk, Lady See Howard.

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Satirist, poet, author of Gulliver's Travels, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, AP's lifelong friend, correspondent, and fellow Scriblerian.

Temple, Sir Richard, Viscount Cobham (1675-1749) Soldier and statesman, friend of AP; residence at Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

Theobald, Lewis (1688--1744) Dramatist, scholar, AP's rival editor of Shakespeare, hero of The Dunciad, 1728.

Tickell, Thomas (1686-1740) Poet, essayist, friend of Addison, rival translator to AP of Homer.

Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736) Eminent bookseller and publisher; his nephew, Jacob Tonson, Jr, carried on the business. 192 A Pope Chronology

Trumbull, Sir William (1639-1716) Former Secretary of State to William III (retired 1698), near neighbour in Berkshire and elderly friend of AP.

Wales, Prince of See Frederick.

Walpole, Sir Robert, Earl of Orford (167Cr1745) Politician and Prime Minister (1721-42), acquaintance of AP and (later) frequent object of AP' s attacks on Whig government.

Walsh, William (166~1708) Poet, critic, courtier, AP's early friend.

Warburton, William (1689-1779) Bishop of Gloucester; originally AP's anonymous antagonist in early pamphlets, later defender of the Essay of Man, and AP's last major friend; edited AP's works (1751), with commentary, asAP's literary executor.

Wycherley, William (1640?-1716) Poet, playwright (The Country Wife), early friend of AP. Principal Places Mentioned

Amesbury Town in Wiltshire, 10 miles north of Salisbury; country home of the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry.

Bath Fashionable Somerset health resort and spa for polite society; AP visited here frequently in his later years.

Bevis Mount 1 mile north of Southampton's city gates; home (now gone) of Lord Peterborough.

Binfield, Berkshire 9 miles east of Reading; AP and family lived here at Whitehill House, c. 1700-15.

Chiswick, Middlesex 8 miles west of London, home of Lord Burlington, and of AP and family, 1716-19.

Cirencester Park Lord Bathurst's house in Oakley Wood, near the Gloucestershire town of the same name.

Dawley Farm South-east of Uxbridge, Middlesex, 15 miles west of London; Bolingbroke's residence from 1725.

Down Hall Matthew Prior's estate in Matching Green, 7 miles north of Epping, Essex; after Prior's death it reverted to Lord Oxford, who had helped Prior buy it.

Easthampstead Berkshire village, 3 miles south of Binfield; home of Sir William Trumbull.

Grub Street Unfashionable London street just outside London Wall near St Giles Cripplegate (the site is now covered by the Barbican development); legendary refuge of third-rate writers and publishers who would attack AP and Swift.

Hammersmith In AP's time, a village 6 miles west of London; AP's family resided here 1692-1700.

Ladyholt Park At South Harting, Sussex, 4 miles south-east of Petersfield, Hampshire; home (now gone) of John Caryll.

193 194 A Pope Chronology

Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire 4 miles north-west of Reading; family residence of Martha and Teresa Blount.

Marble Hill Immediately next to Twickenham on the Thames; location of Lady Suffolk's celebrated house and garden.

Prior Park Palladian house at Combe Down, 2 miles south of Bath, built for Ralph Allen after 1735.

Richmond, Surrey In AP's time, a fashionable village opposite Twickenham on the Thames, 11 miles south-west of London.

Riskins Richings Park, 17 miles west of London, near Slough; home of Allen, Lord Bathurst.

Rousham Park, Oxfordshire 11 miles north of Oxford; home of General James Dormer, remodelled by William Kent, and famous for its naturalistic landscape garden.

Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire 8 miles west of Oxford, home of Lord Harcourt.

Stowe, Buckinghamshire Stately home of Lord Cobham, 4 miles north of Buckingham; AP greatly admired the elaborate gardens and visited frequently after 1725.

Theatre (Haymarket) Known as the Queen's Theatre before 1714 and the King's after that year; first London playhouse built in the eighteenth century (1705).

Theatre (Lincoln's Inn Fields) On Portugal Street, just south of Lincoln's Inn Fields, built in 1714; John Rich was manager; The Beggar's Opera played there in 1728.

Theatre Royal (Covent Garden) John Rich's great project, built in 1732 west of Bow Street on the corner of Covent Garden Market.

Theatre Royal (Drury Lane) One of the principal London Principal Places Mentioned 195

playhouses, just off Drury Lane and Russell Street; Colley Cibber was among the actor-managers here.

Twickenham, Middlesex In AP's time, village on the Thames upstream from London; AP lived here, 1719-44, in his riverside villa (now gone, but the grotto is extant).

Upper Letcombe (Letcombe Bassett), Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) Village 2 miles south-west of Wantage.

Whitehill House Residence of AP and family at Binfield.

Whitton In AP's time, village 1 mile north of Twickenham; home of several of AP's friends, including Nathaniel Pigott.

Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire 10 miles south-west of Cambridge; country house of Edward Harley's wife. Bibliography

In addition to the works cited in the List of Abbreviations (p. xiii), this chronology has drawn upon the following:

Aitken, George A., The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot (1892; repr. New York: Russell and Russell, 1968). Arbuthnot, John, The History of John Bull, ed. Alan W. Bower and Robert A. Erickson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976). Ault, Norman, The Prose Works of Alexander Pope, vol. 1 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1936). Ehrenpreis, Irvin, Swift: His Life, his Works, his Times, 3 vols (London: Methuen, 1962-83). Gay, John, Dramatic Works, ed. John Fuller, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983). --, The Letters of John Gay, ed. C. F. Burgess (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966). --, Poetry and Prose, ed. Vinton A. Dearing and Charles E. Beckwith, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974). Griffith, Reginald Hervey, Alexander Pope: A Bibliography, 2 vols (1922-7; repr. London: Holland Press, 1968). [Rocque, John,] The A to Z of Georgian London, intro. by Ralph Hyde (Lympne Castle, Kent: Harry Margary, 1981). Rogers, Robert W., The Major Satires of Alexander Pope (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1955). Wimsatt, William Kurtz, The Portraits of Alexander Pope (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1965).

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Abberley (Worcestershire), 4 Answer to Mr Pope's Preface to Account of the Conduct of Sarah, Shakespear, An (Roberts), 84 Duchess of Marlborough, An Appius and Virginia (Dennis), 6 (Hooke), 170 Applebee's Original Weekly Journal, Achilles Dissected (1733), 107 59 Act of Settlement (1701), 3 Apollo's Maggot in his Cups (Ward), Adderbury (Oxfordshire), 151 83 Addison, Joseph, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, Arbuthnot, Anne (daughter of Dr 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, John), 167, 178, 184, 185 33, 34, 39, 45, 46, 48, 50, 67, Arbuthnot, George (son of Dr 186, 191 John), 122, 161, 167, 177, 178, Adrianople, 33 185 Adventures of Pomponius, The (1725), Arbuthnot, John, Dr, xi, 3, 21, 22, 61 23, 27, 37, 50, 54, 60, 66, 70, Advice to Sappho (1733), 109 82, 84, 88, 104, 117, 118, 119, Advice to the Poets (Hill), 93 121, 122, 161, 171, 181, 184, Aesop at the Bear Garden (1715), 24 186, 188, 196 Agamemnon (Thomson), 142 advice to AP on satire, 117, 118 Aikman, William, 95 attacks published against, 66 Aitken, George A., 196 attending physician to: Gay, 104; Alexander Pope: A Bibliography Swift, 70 (Griffith), xi, 110, 196 complaints directed to, 84, 121 Alexander Pope: A Life (Mack), xii, death and burial, 122 xiii, 17, 137, 167 death of his wife, 88 Allen, Elizabeth Holder, 136, 137, ill, 60, 117 147, 149, 152, 153, 160, 162, journeys: Bath, 27, 54 168, 173, 177, 180, 183, 184 physician to Queen Anne, 3 Allen, Ralph, 129, 130, 131, 132, Scriblerus club meetings, 21, 22, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 23, 37 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, works: John Bull pamphlets, 12, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 13, 14, 69, 186; History of 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 162, John Bull, The (ed. Bower 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, and Erickson), 196; 'Sermon 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, Preached at the Mercat 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, Cross of Edinburgh', 167; 183, 184, 185, 186, 194 Tables of Ancient Coins, 67; All Souls College, Oxford, 31, 44 Three Hours after Marriage, Amesbury (Wiltshire), 60, 82, 101, 31, 32, 33, 186; see also AP, 102, 103, 117, 193 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot Anne, Queen of England, 3, 6, 10, Are These Things So? ... From an 13, 22, 26, 186 Englishman in his Grotto to a Annus Mirabilis (by AP?), 48 Great Man at Court (Miller?), 160 Another Occasional Letter from Mr Argyll (or Argyle) Duke of, see Cibber to Mr Pope (Cibber), 181 Campbell, John

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Art of English Poetry (Bysshe), 36 Belgrade, 32 Art of Scribling . .., The (1733), 113 Bentinck, William, 2nd Duke of Ashburnham, Earl of, 97 Portland, 117, 118 Athelwold (Hill), 94, 95, 96, 98 Bentley, Richard, 97, 99, 100, 121, A to Z of Georgian limdon, The 122, 186 (Rocque), 196 Bentley, Thomas, 122 Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Berkeley, George (philosopher and Rochester, 22, 35, 37, 42, 43, Bishop of Cloyne), 21, 35, 116 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 77, Berkeley, George, Hon. (son of 85, 90, 97, 100, 101, 119, 124, Earl of Berkeley), 117 125, 130, 186 Berkeley Street (London), 183 Atterburyana (1727), 66 Bethel, Hugh, 51, 75, 77, 94, 95, 'Atticus', 46, 48, 50 96, 112, 118, 120, 127, 135, 137, Augusta, Princess, 139 140, 144, 157, 166, 177, 178, Ault, Norman, xiii, 130, 149, 196 182, 186 Avebury (Wiltshire), 169 Bethel, Slingsby (brother of Hugh), Ayre, William, 148, 150 132, 133, 140, 164, 171, 176, 179, 180, 183 Baltimore, Lord, see Calvert, Bettenham, James, 75 Charles Betterton, Thomas, 8, 13 Barber, John, 44, 149, 162, 167 Bevis Mount (nr Southampton), Barber, Mary, 115 112, 113, 116, 117, 118, 119, Barnard, John, xiii 126, 127, 131, 132, 133, 139, 'Barnivelt, Esdras', 25 190, 193 Barrowby (Lincolnshire), 104 Bill of Rights (1689), 1 Basingstoke (Hampshire), 133 Binfield (Berkshire), 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Bath (Somerset), 23, 27, 31, 46, 47, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 48, 54, 73, 76, 77, 78, 119, 120, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 124, 130, 132, 133, 134, 136, 29, 33, 39, 193, 195 137, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, Birch, Thomas, 133, 134, 139 147, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, Black Act, 50 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, Blackmore, Sir Richard, 33 163, 167, 168, 169, 173, 174, Blatant Beast, The (1742), 174 176, 177, 178, 183, 184 Blount, Edward, 34, 45, 58, 64 Bathampton (Somerset), 177 Blount family, 11, 23, 26, 32, 34, Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst, 35, 83, 115, 193 36, 37, 39, 45, 52, 64, 77, 78, Blount, Martha ('Patty'), 2, 11, 13, 79, 81, 84, 89, 93, 97, 98, 102, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29, 51, 54, 55, 111, 112, 117, 132, 144, 146, 61, 75, 77, 85, 90, 98, 101, 105, 155, 161, 165, 177, 180, 181, 119, 122, 126, 132, 150, 152, 185, 186, 188 153, 157, 158, 167, 171, 174, Bathurst, Charles, 158, 160, 163, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 165, 166, 167, 168, 171 183, 185, 186, 188, 193 Battersea (Middlesex), 179, 180, Blount, Teresa, 11, 30, 32, 35, 83, 181, 182 101, 186, 193 Battle of the Poets (Cooke), 58 Bodleian Library, Oxford, 45 Beach, Mary (AP's nurse), 1, 60-1 Bolingbroke, Lord, see StJohn, Beaulieu (Hampshire), 118 Henry Beckwith, Charles E., 196 Booth, Barton, 23 Index 199

Boreman, T., 121 Buckingham, Duke of, see Borlase, Revd William, 153, 155, Sheffield, John 156, 157, 159 Buckley, Samuel, 102, 123, 125, Bower, Alan W., 196 130, 136, 140 Bowles, Joseph, 45 Burgess, C. F., 196 Bowyer, William, 104, 170, 174, Burlington, Lady, see Boyle, 175, 176, 178, 179, 181, 182 Dorothy Boyle, Dorothy, Countess of Burlington, Lord, see Boyle, Burlington, 80, 89, 103, 104, Richard 105, 114, 116, 145, 147 Burlington Gardens (London), 82, Boyle, John, 5th Earl of Orrery, 85, 104 110, 127, 129, 130, 133, 135, Burlington lfouse (London), 37, 136, 137, 138, 139, 145, 150, 181, 182, 187 154, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop, 187 163, 164, 169, 172, 180, 181, Burnet, Thomas, 25, 27, 29, 30, 82, 182, 183, 184, 187 187 Boyle, Margaret, Lady Orrery, 154, Burton, Dr Simon, 182, 183 183 Bushy Park (Middlesex), 184 Boyle, Richard, 3rd Earl of Butt, John, xiii Burlington, 28, 29, 30, 37, 38, Button's coffee-house (London), 25 44, 64, 71, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, Buxton (Derbyshire), 142 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 96, 98, 99, Byles, Mather, 70, 73, 74 101, 102-3, 104, 111, 117, 119, Bysshe, Edward, 36 130, 134, 144, 147, 151, 154, 172, 175, 181, 182, 183, 187, Caesar, Mrs Mary Adelmar, 53, 57, 188, 193 58, 84, 117, 157 Boyle, Roger, 1st Earl of Orrery, 152 Caledon (Co. Tyrone, Ireland), 159 Bramston, James, 107 calendar Breval, John, 33 Gregorian, xii Bridges, Mr, 129 Julian, xii Bridges, Revd Ralph, 5, 17 Calvert, Charles, Earl of Baltimore, Brinsden, John (father of Lord 165 Bolingbroke's agent, Charles), Cambridge, 63, 69, 80, 156 152 Cambridge (Massachusetts), 70, 74 Bristol, 152, 155, 171, 178 Campbell, Archibald, Earl of Ilay British Journal, 55 (later 3rd Duke of Argyll), 126 British Mercury, 11 Campbell, John, 2nd Duke of Brooke,lfenry, 152 Argyll, 34, 150, 151, 156 Broome, William,23,40,41,46,50, Cannons (Berkshire), 99 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, The 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 71, (Ogle), 164 73, 75, 82, 87, 88, 90, 91, 94, Caroline, Queen of England, wife 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 187 of George II, 139, 140 Bruce, Lord Charles, 117, 130 Carter, Elizabeth, 146 Brydges, James, 1st Duke of Carteret, John, Viscount, 49, 136 Chandos, 93, 98, 99, 100, 101, Caryll, Catherine (daughter of 110, 187 John, Sr), 115, 116 Buckingham, Duchess of, see Caryll, Edward (son of John, Sr), Sheffield, Katharine 88, 101 200 Index

Caryll, John, Sr, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, Cirencester (Gloucestershire), 36, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 28, 37, 38, 45, 52, 77, 102, 111, 33, 34, 36, 37, 43, 46, 61, 62, 112, 117, 131, 139, 165, 177, 63, 66, 67, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 178, 193 85, 86, 89, 91, 101, 103, 105, Claremont (Garth), 25 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, Clarendon, Lord, see Hyde, 115, 116, 122, 123, 187, 193 Edward Caryll, John, Jr, 14, 36 Clarke, George, 31, 44 Catholic Poet, The (Oldmixon), 29 Cleland, William, 68, 76, 90, 94, 96, Cato (Addison), 16, 17, 18, 45 98, 99, 102, 153, 167, 187 Cave, Edward, 127 Cliveden (Buckinghamshire), 133 'Cave of Pope, The' (Dodsley), Cobham, Lord, see Temple, 179 Richard Caxton, William, 75 Codrington, Sir William, 77, 137, Censor, The, 31 183 Chalfont (Buckinghamshire), 139 Codrus (1728), 78 Champion, The, 152, 173 Coke, Thomas, Lord Love!, 119 Chandos, Duke of, see Brydges, Cole, Nathaniel, 140-1, 164 James 'Collected in Himself': Essays Critical, Character of John Sheffield ... (1729), Biographical, and Bibliographical 177 on Pope and Some of his Characters: An Epistle to Alexander Contemporaries (Mack), xiii, Pope (1739), 148 140-1, 156 Character of the Times (1728), 77 Collection of Pieces in Verse and Prose Charles I, King of England, 3 ... on ... the Dunciad, A Charterhouse, 55 (1731), 98-9 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 3, 8, 13, 51, Collection of Several Curious Pieces 164, 183 ..., A (1728), 73 Chelsea Hospital, 182, 184 Commentaire sur ... l'Essai . .. sur Cheselden, William, 115, 156, 157, l'Homme (Crousaz), 141, 146, 158, 160, 182, 184 167-8 Chesterfield, Earl of, see Stanhope, Commentary on Mr Pope's Principles Philip Dormer of Morality ... (Crousaz, Cheyne, George, 175 trans. Johnson), 167-8 Chiswick, 28, 29, 31, 35, 38, 64, 80, Commentary (Warburton), see 86, 94, 96, 101, 111, 116, 172, Critical and Philosophical 183, 187, 193 Commentary Christ Church, Oxford, 90 Common Sense, 177 Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Compleat Collection of all the Verses, (Newton), 71 A (1728), 75 Churchill, Henrietta, Duchess of Compleat Key to the Dunciad, A Marlborough, 47, 73, 150, 158, (1728), 74 166, 167, 169, 170, 172, 173, Complete Art of Poetry (Gildon), 37 174 Complete Collection of the ... Works Churchill, John, 1st Duke of of Milton, A (Birch), 139 Marlborough, 12, 47 Complete Key to . . . Three Hours Cibber, Colley, 35, 36, 91, 92, 103, after Marriage, A (1717), 32 114, 157, 171, 172, 173, 174, Complete Key to . .. The What D'ye 175, 179, 181, 182, 187, 194 Call It, A, 25 Index 201

Concanen, Matthew, 77, 89, 99 Cythereia (1723), 50 Conduitt, John, 71, 119 Confederates, The (Breval), 33 Congreve, William, 68, 73, 79 Dacier, Anne, 38, 49, 62 Constantinople, 30, 37, 38 Dahl, Michael, 102 Cooke, Thomas, 58, 74, 77, 78, 79, Daily Advertiser, 146 149 Daily Courant, 27, 34, 56, 57 Cooper, Thomas, 124, 125, 142, Daily Gazetteer, 131, 141, 142, 144, 148, 170, 179 145, 146, 147, 148, 153, 179, Cope, Anne (Caryll), 79 181, 182 Cork, 136 Daily Journal, 49, 73, 74, 97, 110, Cork, Earl of, 99 123, 124, 153 Combury, 151 Daily Post, 55, 64, 75, 81, 153 Combury, Lord, see Hyde, Henry Daily Post-Boy, 90, 98, 99, 123 Correspondence of Alexander Pope, Dancastle, Thomas, 34, 39, 40 The (Sherburn), xii, xiii, 35, 58, Davenant, William, 110 59, 60, 61, 66, 69, 70, 72, 73, Dawley Farm (Middlesex), 57, 63, 77, 78, 82, 94, 111, 116, 118-19, 65, 72, 76, 84, 94, 96, 102, 111, 120, 132, 135, 138, 156, 163, 112, 119, 144, 145, 146, 148, 177, 178, 183 149, 193 Cotton, Charles, 4 Deane, Thomas (schoolmaster), 2, Cotton, Library, 97 67 Cottrell, Sir Clement, 110-11, 185 Dean's Provocation for Writing the Country Wife, The (Wycherley), 192 Lady's Dressing-Room, The Court Poems (1716), 28 (Montagu), 115 Covent Garden (Theatre), 106, 110, Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence 116, 148, 194 ... (Curll), 165-6 Cowley, Abraham, 34 Dearing, Vinton A., 196 Cowper, Judith, 48, 51, 75 Declaration of Indulgence (1688), 1 Cowper, Dr William, 100 Defoe, Daniel, 59 Craftsman, The, 66, 97 Delany, Dr Patrick, 86, 87, 127 Craggs, James, 36, 42, 44, 53, 67, Denbigh, Lord, 116 71, 112, 136, 187 Dennis, John, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, Crashaw, Richard, 9 23, 24, 30, 32, 74, 76, 83, 108, Creation, The (Hill), 41 114, 115, 188 Critical and Philosophical Commentary Difference Between Verbal and on Mr Pope's Essay on Man Practical Virtue, The (1742), 172 (Warburton), 146, 172, 175 Digby, Mary, 83 Cromwell, Henry, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, Digby, Hon. Robert (son of 11, 62, 64, 69, 76, 187 William), 51, 54, 63 Crousaz, Jean-Pierre de, 134-5, Digby, William, 5th Baron Digby, 141, 146, 148, 152, 167 54 Curliad, The (1729), 81 Dispensary, The (Garth), 3 Curll, Edmund, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, Divine Legation of Moses 36, 42, 49, 50, 61, 64, 66, 68, (Warburton), 157, 165 69, 72, 74, 76, 77, 78, 81, 106, Divine Wisdom and Providence 107, 113, 114, 123-4, 125, 126, (Bridges), 129 127, 129, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 'Dodd, A.', 74,81 138, 146, 157, 164, 165-6, 188 Dodington (Gloucestershire), 77 202 Index

Dodsley, Robert, 106, 116, 119, Englishman, The, 19 123, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, Englefield, Anthony, 10, 24 142, 143, 147, 148, 149, 152, Epistle from a Gentleman at 162, 179, 188 Twickenham ..., An (1734), 115 Donne, John, 63, 113 Epistle from a Nobleman . . . , An Don Quixote (trans. Jervas), 176 (Hervey), 113, 114 Don Quixote (trans. Motteux), 3 Epistle to Alexander Pope, An (1735), Dormer, James, Brigadier, 67, 95, 122 105, 117, 151, 188, 194 Epistle to Mr Pope, From a Young Dormer, Robert, Colonel, 77, 127, Gentleman at Rome (Lyttelton), 151 88 Dorset, Earl of, see Sackville, Epistle to Mr Pope, Occasion'd by his Charles Essay on Man, An (Dodsley), 120 Douglas, Catherine, Duchess of Epistle to Mr Pope, on ... the Iliad Queensbury, 60, 81, 82, 83, 87, and Odyssey, An (Harte?), 92 91, 101, 117, 146, 178, 188, 193 Epistle to the Egregious Mr Pope, An Douglas, Charles, 3rd Duke of (1734), 115 Queensbury, 60, 81, 82, 87, Epistle to the Little Satyrist of 101, 106, 117, 188, 193 Twickenham, An (1733), 108 Down Hall (Matching Green, Erickson, Robert A., 196 Essex), 61, 62, 63, 95, 101, 193 Essay on Criticism, An (Oldmixon), Drury-Lane Monster, The (1717), 32 72 Drury Lane (Theatre), 17, 24, 48, Essay on Mr Pope's Odyssey, An 52,95, 103,146, 14~ 148,194 (Spence), 63, 64, 69, 139, 191 Dryden,John,3,28,34,42,43 Essay on Reason, An (Harte), 116, Dublin, 2, 18, 23, 24, 26, 48, 49, 51, 122 52, 60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, Essay on Satire, An (Harte), 92 75, 83, 86, 97, 99, 102, 108, Essay on the Dunciad, An (1728), 76 109, 121, 126, 130, 137, 156, Essay on the Universe, An (Morrice), 161, 162, 165 109 Duck, Stephen, 90 Essay upon the Taste and Writings of Duckett, George, 25, 27, 29, 30, 82 the Present Age, An (1728), 76 Dudgeon, VVilliam, 148 Essays upon Several Subjects Du Fresnoy, Art of Painting, 28 (Blackmore), 33 Duke Street (VVestminster), 164, Eugenio: or, Virtuous and Happy Life 180, 181 (1737), 137 Duncombe, VVilliam, 120, 123 Eurydice (Mallet), 85, 92 Du Resnal, J. F. duB., 141 Eusden,Lawrence,38,90,91 Durgen (VVard), 79 Evans, Abel Dr, 35, 39 Evening Post, 39, 45, 47, 57, 69, 82, Early Career of Alexander Pope, The 83 (Sherburn), xiii, 26 Examen de l'Essai de M. Pope sur Easthampstead Park (Berkshire), !'Homme (Crousaz), 134--5, 141, 26, 54, 67, 89, 193 146 East India Co., 9 Examination of Mr Pope's Essay on Edinburgh, 81, 82 Man, An (Crousaz), 146 Egotist: or Colley upon Cibber, The Explanatory Notes . . . on Paradise (1743, Cibber?), 175 Lost (Richardson), 96, 121 Ehrenpreis, Irvin, 196 Eyam (Derbyshire), 151 Index 203

Fatal Secret, The (Theobald), 108 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, Faulkner, George, 60, 120, 121, 105, 106, 108, 109-10, 111, 131, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 133, 134, 187, 188 163, 165 AP's biographical account of, 133 Femald Dunciad, The (1728), 77 attacks published on, 32, 66, 107 Fenton, Elijah, 33, 42, 46, 47, 50, attending ill friends, 60, 65, 97 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, Birch's life of, 133, 134 64, 66, 67, 73, 75, 82, 87, 88, burial, 105, 171 90, 188 Commissioner of State Lotteries, Fermor, Arabella, 20, 188 50 Fielding, Henry, 152, 173, 186 Curll' s Life of Gay, 106 Finch, Anne, Countess of death, 104, 105, 145 Winchelsea, 19, 33 financial matters, 43, 72 Finch, Heneage, 5th Earl of gentleman usher to Princess Winchelsea, 34 Louisa, 70, 71 First Satire of the Second Book of journeys: Amesbury, 60, 101, Horace, The (Curll?), 107 103; Bath, 27, 44, 47, 48, 54, Fleetwood, Charles, 146, 147 73, 78; continent, 39; Flying-Post, The, 28, 29, 30, 81 Edinburgh, 81; Somerset, Fog's Weekly Journal, 125, 126 103 Fontainebleau, 150 meetsAP, 10 Ford, Charles, 44, 59 pastoral controversy, 21, 30, 31 Forman, Charles, 146 posthumous writings, 106, 107, Fortescue, William, 27, 50, 53, 57, 108, 109, 110 79, 83, 86, 88, 90, 94, 100, 101, Queensberry, support of Duke 106, 107, 108, 116, 117, 120, and Duchess, 60, 81, 82, 83 124, 125, 129, 130, 131, 132, Scriblerus Club member, xi, 21, 147, 150, 152, 153, 154, 166, 22, 23, 37, 188 183, 188 secretary to embassy to Fox, Stephen, 114 Hanover, 22 Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, steward to Duchess of 127, 130, 134, 139, 140, 148-9, Monmouth, 15 150, 187 tomb and epitaphs, 106, 110, Freeholder, The, 29 111, 131, 137 Freemasons, Lodge of, 86 Twickenham visits, 64, 93, 96, Fuller, John, 196 97, 100 Whitehall lodgings, 50, 82 works: Achilles, 101, 105, 106, Garden and the City, The (Mack), 107, 108; Acis and Galatea, 93; xiii, 160, 180 Beggar's Opera, The, 14, 31, Garrick, David, 167 55, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 79, Garth, Samuel, 3, 25,36 188, 194; Captives, The, 52; Gay, John, (1685-1732), xi, 10, 11, Distress'd Wife, The, 116; 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, Dramatic Works (ed. Fuller), 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 34, 37, 39, 196; Epistle to Henrietta, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, Duchess of Marlborough, An, 60, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 47; 'Epitaph on Himself', 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 137; Fables, 101, 145; Fan, 85, 87, 90, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, The, 18, 19; Letters oflohn 204 Index

Gay, John- continued Golden Cross Inn (Oxford), 127 works - continued Gosfield (Essex), 95, 112, 130, 131 Gay, The (ed. Burgess), 76, Graham, Richard, 28 196; Metamorphoses (Ovid), Granville, George, Lord book, ix, 33-4; Miscellanies Lansdowne, 16, 19, 104 (AP-Swift), see under Gray, Thomas, 170 Miscellanies; Mohocks, The, Greene, Maurice, Dr, 89 12; 'Newgate's Garland', 55; Greenwich, 149, 177 'On a Miscellany of Poems', Grenville, George, 150 11, 13; Poems on Several Griffith, Reginald Hervey, xi, 110, Occasions, 42; Poetry and 196 Prose (ed. Dearing and Grub Street (London), 72, 99--100, Beckwith), 196; Polly, 73, 79, 110, 193 80, 82; Rural Sports, 16; Grub-Street Journal, The, 88, 89, 91, Shepherd's Week, The, 19, 21; 97, 98, 123, 132 Three Hours after Marriage, Grumbler, The, 25 31, 32, 33, 186; 'Toilette, Guardian, The, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, The', 28; Trivia, 26, 28; What 186, 190, 191 D'ye Call It, The, 24; Wife of Guerinot, J. V., xi, xiii Bath, The (1713), 17, 86; Wife Guildford (Surrey), 112 of Bath, The (1730), 85, 86 Gulliver Decypher'd (1726), 66 Gazette, 56, 57, 58, 125 Gulliveriana (Smedley), 77, 78 General Dictionary, Historical and Critical (1734), 119--20, 133, 134 General Evening Post, 131 General Post, 11 Hadrian, 14 Gentleman's Magazine, The, 95, 108, Hagley (Worcestershire), 150 110, 111, 115, 123, 127, 130, Hales, Stephen, Dr, 180 150, 151, 154, 162, 169, 179 Halifax, Marquess of, see Savile, Genuine Works in Verse and Prose Henry (Granville), 104 Hallgrove (Bagshot, Surrey), 34, George, Prince of Denmark 96, 147, 160 (husband of Queen Anne), 6 Hamilton, Elizabeth, Duchess, of, George, Prince (later George III), 34 143, 188 Hamilton, Lord George, 1st Earl of George I, King of England and Orkney, 133 Elector of Hanover, 22, 23, 32, Hammersmith, 2, 190, 191, 193 34, 69, 188 Hampstead (London), 117, 119 George II, King of England, 39, 69, Hampton (Somerset), see 80, 131, 137, 139, 140, 153, 157, Bathampton 181, 188 Hampton Court, 34, 139 Giant's Causeway (Ireland), 170, Handel, George Frederick, 34, 93, 171 187 Gildon, Charles, 11, 21, 36, 37 Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 175, 179 Gilliver, Lawton, 81, 84, 85, 86, 96, Hanover, 22, 23, 32, 69 98, 99, 102, 104, 108, 115, 116, Harcourt, Simon, Viscount, 37, 49, 121, 122, 123, 125, 128, 137, 51, 55, 59, 67, 194 147, 163, 188 Harleian Library, 59, 83, 84, 195 Glover, Richard, 130 Harlequin Sheppard (Thurmond), 55 Index 205

Harley, Edward, 2nd Earl of 'Homerides', 59 Oxford, 46, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, Homerides: Or, A Letter to Mr Pope 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, (Burnet and Duckett), 25, 29 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, (Parnell), 33 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 100, Hooke, Nathaniel, 93, 132, 141, 103, 104, 105, 112, 113, 117, 151, 155, 159, 166, 167, 169, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 170, 173, 174, 184, 185, 189 124, 125, 126, 150, 152, 155, Hope, John, 67 157, 165, 170, 176, 188, 195 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Harley, Edward, 3rd Earl of 46, 82, 105, 117, 121, 122, 123, Oxford (cousin of the 2nd 144; see also AP, Horatian Earl), 176 poems Harley, Henrietta (wife of 2nd Earl Howard, Henrietta, later Countess of Oxford), 56, 58, 65, 97, 113, of Suffolk, 55, 89, 94, 119, 148, 157, 195 189, 193 Harley, Lady Margaret (daughter Howe, John, 77-8 of 2nd Earl of Oxford), 56, 97, Hughes, Jabez, 41 116, 117, 118 Hughes, John, 21, 41, 123 Harley, Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford, Hume, Alexander, 2nd Earl of 5, 9, 10, 20, 21, 22, 26, 37, 45, Marchmont, 154 51, 54, 63, 188, 189, 193 Hume, Hugh, 3rd Earl of Harte, Walter, 67, 75, 92, 104, 116, Marchmont, 154, 155, 158, 122, 189 159, 163, 176, 179, 180, 182, Haymarket Theatre, 114, 194 183, 185, 189 Henley, John ('Orator'), 94, 176 Hyde, Edward, 3rd Earl of Henry VIII (Shakespeare), 47 Clarendon, 22 Herbert, George, 3 Hyde, Henry, Viscount Cornbury, Hertford, Countess of, see 122, 136, 140, 146, 178, 189 Seymour, Francis Hyde, Jane, Countess of Rochester Hervey, Lord John, 41, 108, 109, and of Clarendon, 34 113, 114, 115, 172, 177, 189 Hyde, Ralph, 196 Heywood, Eliza, 101 Hyp-Doctor, The, 94 Highgate (London), 152 Hill, Aaron, 41, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95, The 96, 98, 99, 100, 105, 110, 113, Idea of a Patriot King, (Bolingbroke), 143 134, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, Day, Lord, Campbell, Archibald 147, 148, 181, 189 see Iliad (trans. Dacier), 49 Historical Account . . . of . .. English Iliad (book I, trans. Tickell), 26, 27 Poets Gacob), 42 Dive, Jacob, 175 History of the Works of the Learned, Ingratitude (1733), 110 146, 148, 149, 150 Isle of Wight, 118, 139 Holder, Elizabeth see Allen, Elizabeth Holmes, William, Dr, 170 Homer, 5, 6, 17, 19, 20, 42, 74, 92, Jacob, Giles, 38, 42, 110 101, 108, 170; see also AP, Jacobite invasion (1719), 39 Homer translations, Iliad Jacobite rebellion (1715), 27, 28 translation and Odyssey James II, King of England, 1, 2, 3 translations Jane Shore (Rowe), 16 206 Index

Jervas, Charles, 4, 15, 17, 18, 19, Letcombe, see Upper Letcombe 22, 24, 26, 27, 31, 35, 38, 41, Letter from Mr Cibber, to Mr Pope 46, 51, 52, 57, 81, 151, 152, (Cibber), 171, 172 154, 176, 189 Letter to Mr Cibber ... (Hervey), Jervas, Penelope (wife of Charles), 172 152, 153 Letter to Mr John Gay (1717), 32 Johnson, Esther ('Stella'), 72 Letter to Mr Pope (Bentley), 122 Johnson, Samuel, 57, 143, 167 Lewis, David, 87, 88 Julius Caesar (Buckingham), 48, 49 Lewis, Erasmus, 148,150,156,185 Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 47 Lewis, William, 10, 171 Junius Brutus (Duncombe), 120 Lick upon Lick; Occasion'd by another Juvenal, 143, 144 Occasional Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope (1744), 182 Life and Character of Dr S[ wift] Kensington (London), 123, 127 (1733), 109, 110 Kent, William, 103, 104, 134, 145, Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, 154, 179, 189, 146, 147, 153, The (Aitken), 196 194 Life of . .. Elizabeth Wisebourne, The Key to the New Comedy, A (1717), (Morley), 44 31-2 Life of Mr Gay (Curll), 106 William, Dr, 139, 150, 155 King, Life of Swift (1733), 110 King John (Shakespeare), 47 Ligue, La (Voltaire), 53 Knapton, John (and Paul), 140-1, Lincoln's Inn, 117 168, 173, 182, 184 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 154, 164, 180, Kneller, Godfrey, 34, 39, 51, 58, 59, 194 60, 189 Lincoln's Inn Fields (Theatre), 72, Kneller, Susannah, Lady, 59 86,93 Knight, Ann (Craggs, sister of 'Lines to Margaret Harley' James Craggs), 112, 130-1, (Dodsley), 116 133, 136, 155; see also Lintot, Bernard, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, Newsham, Ann and Nugent, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, Robert 32, 33, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 89, 94, 95, 130-1 Knight, John, 45, 52, 56, 57, 58, 67, 68, 71, 183 Knight's Tale, The (Chaucer), 80, 82, 126, 128, 129, 189 of Ross'), 55, 95, Kyrle, John ('Man Lintot, Henry (son of Bernard), 97, 101 130, 154, 156, 161, 163, 164, 175, 176, 189 Ladyholt Park (South Harting, Lintot's Miscellany (1712), see Sussex), 20, 23, 33, 46, 112, Miscellaneous Poems and 193 Translations (1712) Lady Jane Gray (Rowe), 25 Lisbon, 127, 128 Lamb, William, 145, 149 London Gohnson), 143 Lansdowne, Lord, see Granville, London Evening Post, 98, 99, 100, George 109, 119, 124, 128, 131, 134, Leake, James, 131 141, 153 Leigh (Essex), 59 London Gazette, 135 Leonidas (Glover), 130 London Journal, 48, 50, 55, 59 Lepell, Mary (later wife of Lord London Magazine, 130, 151 Hervey), 41 Lovel, Lord, see Coke, Thomas Index 207

Lyttelton, George (later Lord Miscellanies (AP-Swift), 31, 67, 69, Lyttelton), 88, 126, 134, 145, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 149, 150, 155, 156, 165, 167, 81, 82, 86, 102, 103-4, 160, 163, 184, 190 165, 166, 167, 171, 190 Miscellanies in Verse and Prose (Swift, 1712), 9 Macbeth (Shakespeare), 47 miscellany (1709), see Poetical Mack, Maynard, xii, xiii, 17, 110, Miscellanies 137, 160, 167, 180 miscellany (1712), see Miscellaneous Major Satires of Alexander Pope Poems and Translations (1712) (Rogers), xi, 196 miscellany (1714), see Poetical Mallet, David, 85, 86, 92, 94, 95, Miscellanies (1714) 104, 108, 109, 116, 145, 146, miscellany (1717), see Poems on 147, 148, 152, 163, 184, 190 Several Occasions (ed. AP) 'Man of Ross', see Kyrle, John Miscellany on Taste, A (Concanen), Man of Taste, The (Bramston), 107 99 Mapledurham House Mist's Weekly Journal, 26, 62, 73, 74, (Oxfordshire), 11, 12, 32, 34, 75 193 Monmouth, Duchess of, 15 Marble Hill (Twickenham), 89, 148, Montagu, Edward Wortley, 29, 37, 193 39,41 Marchmont, Lord, see Hume, Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 1, Alexander or Hugh 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, Mariamne (Fenton), 50 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 84, 101, Marlborough (Wiltshire), 161 107, 108, 109, 110, 115, 120, Marlborough, Duchess of, see 125, 190 Churchill, Henrietta Montague, Lady Mary Churchill, Marlborough, Duke of, see Duchess of, 118 Churchill, John Montaigne, Essays (trans. Cotton), 4 Mary II, Queen of England, 1, 2, 3 Moore Smythe, James, 67, 73, 81, Mawhood family, 3 87,88 Mead, Richard, Dr, 141 Mordaunt, Charles, 3rd Earl of Melmoth, William, 40 Peterborough, 48, 50, 56, 64, Memoirs of the Life of Scriblerus 92, 95, 101, 111, 112, 113, 116, (1723), 49 117, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124, Memoirs of the Life of William 126, 127, 128, 133, 190, 193 Wycherley (Gildon), 36 Morley, Richard, 44 Metamorphosis, The (Smedley), 76 Morphew, John, 18 Middleton Stoney (Oxfordshire), Morrice, Bezaleel, 108, 109, 170 82 Most Proper Reply to the Nobleman's Miller, James, 160 Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity, A Milton, John, 47, 96, 99, 100, 121, (1734), 114 139 Motte, Benjamin, 65, 67, 69, 72, 78, Mirror, The Gacob), 110 79, 80, 81, 82, 86, 102, 103, Miscellanea (Curll), 64, 66, 69 104, 171, 190; see also Miscellaneous Poems and Translations Miscellanies {AP-Swift) (Lintot, 1712), 8, 11, 13, 58 Mottley, John, 74 Miscellaneous Poems, by Several Mr Pope's Picture in Miniature Hands (1730), 88 (1743), 175 208 Index

Mr Taste's Tour from the Island of On P[ope] and W[elsted] (1732), 100 Politeness, to that of Dulness and On the English Translations of Homer Scandal (1733), 110 (Morrice), 108 Mr Taste, The Poetical Fop On the Prospect of Peace (Tickell), 14 (Heywood?), 101 Orkney, Lord, see Hamilton, Lord Murray, William (later 1st Earl of George Mansfield), 140, 146, 154, 156, Orrery, Lady see Boyle, Margaret 160, 161, 164, 165, 169, 174, Orrery, Lord, see Boyle, John 175, 180, 183, 185, 190 Osborn, James M., xiii Mustapha (Mallet), 148 Osbourne, Thomas, 153, 154 Osnabriick, 69 Narrative of the Method . . . Letters of Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 12, Mr Pope . .. , A (1735), 124 33-4 Nash, Richard (Beau), 148, 150 Ovid's Epistles . .. by Several Hands Netley, Abbey (Hampshire), 118 (1712), 12 Newark (Nottinghamshire), 169, Ovid's Metamorphoses (Garth, 1717), 174 33 Newbury (Berkshire), 160, 161, 169 Oxford (city), 21, 35, 36, 38, 44, New England Weekly Journal, 73 102, 126, 139, 140, 155, 165, New Light on Pope (Ault), xiii, 130, 166, 178, 189 149 Oxford, Lady, see Harley, New Rehearsal, Or Bays the Younger, Henrietta A (Gildon), 21 Oxford, Lord, see Harley, Robert or Newsham, Ann (Craggs, sister of Harley, Edward James Craggs), 54; see also Oxford University, 165, 166, 175, Knight, Ann and Nugent, 191 Robert Oxford University Press, 178 Newton, Isaac, 71 Non-Juror, The (Cibber), 35, 36 Page, Sir Francis, 151 Northern Star, The (Hill), 147 Palaemon to Caelia (Welsted), 32 Nugent, Robert, 136, 155, 158, 165 Palladio, 93 Pall Mall coffee-house (London), Observations, Anecdotes, and 22 Characters of Books and Men Pamela (Richardson), 163 (Spence), xiii, 184 Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope Odes and Epistles (Nugent), 155 (Guerinot), xi, xiii, 81 Of Dulness and Scandal (Welsted), Paradise Lost (Milton), 96, 97, 99, 99 100, 121 Of False Fame (Welsted), 100 Parnell, Thomas, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33, Of Good Nature (1732), 100 34,37,38,43,45, 190 Of Verbal Criticism (Mallet), 104, Parson's Green (London), 92, 101 108, 109 Pasquin, 49 Ogle, George, 164 Pastorals (Philips), 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, Oldmixon, John, 29, 72 14, 17 Oliver, William, Dr, 159, 162, 164, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 179 178 Pendarves,Mary, 139 Once a Lover (Granville), 104 Penelope (Cooke and Mottley), 74 One Epistle to Mr Pope (1730), 84, Percival, John, Viscount, 34, 55 87,88 Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), 95 Index 209

Peterborough, Lady, see Robinson, 148, 157, 170, 171, 172, 173, Anastasia, later Countess of 174, 175, 181 Peterborough books received and sent, 1, 3, 4, Peterborough, Lord, see Mordaunt, 9, 95, 96, 97, 100, 114, 122, Charles 137, 138, 139, 155, 157, 163, Philips, Ambrose, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 171, 182, 185 14, 16, 17, 58, 190 Civil List award, 58 Pigott, Nathaniel, 65, 107, 116, 138, correspondence, 66, 75, 82, 83, 195 84, 85, 87, 93, 113, 114, 122, Pilkington, Matthew, 102, 103-4, 123-4, 125, 126, 127, 128, 115, 116 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, Plain Dealer, The, 58, 92 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, Plough Court (London), 1 142, 145, 151, 153, 155, 156, Poems on Several Occasions (Gay), 42 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, Poems on Several Occasions (Harte), 163, 164, 165-6, 176 67 death and burial, 149, 184 Poems on Several Occasions (Pope, dogs, 130, 134, 150 1717), 33, 34 drinking, 146, 147 Poems on Several Occasions (Prior), editorial work: Betterton's 39 poems, 13; Buckingham's Poems on Several Occasions (Wesley), Works, 43, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50; 127 Gay's Fables, 145; Poet Finish'd in Prose, The (1735), Miscellaneous Poems and 124-5 Translations (1712), 8, 13, 14; Poet Laureate, see Cibber, Colley; Miscellanies (AP-Swift), 31, Eusden, Laurence; Rowe, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, Nicholas 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 86, 102, Poetical Entertainer, The, 20 103--4, 160, 163, 165, 166, Poetical Miscellanies (Tonson, 1709), 167, 171, 190; Parnell's 6, 7 Poems,33,43,45, 190;Poems Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of on Several Occasions (1717), Original Poems and Translations 33, 34; Shakespeare's Works, (Steele, 1714), 20 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 52, 54, Poetical Register Gacob), 38 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 74, 78, Pontefract (Yorkshire), 186 84, 97; Wycherley's poems, Pope, Alexander (of Thurso), 142 4, 5, 7, 8; Wycherley, Pope, Alexander (AP's father), 1, Posthumous Works, 84, 85 7, 35, 58, 190 education,2, 15,29-30 Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) as Freemason, 86 birth, 1 gardens, 122, 131, 145, 149, 150, accident injuries, 65, 132 155, 164, 166 attacks published against, 10, grotto, 40, 58, 153, 155, 156, 157, 23-4,25,29,30,32,33,36, 158, 159, 160, 162, 164, 166, 44, 49, 50, 57, 59, 61, 62, 72, 167, 171, 173, 176, 179, 194 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, health: asthma, 176, 177, 180, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 92, 94, 99, 182; colds, 67, 84, 117, 121, 100, 101, 107, 108, 109, 110, 144, 176; colic, 70, 79, 83, 113, 114, 115, 122, 124-5, 133; depression, 122; 129, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, dropsy, 176;exhaustion, 210 Index

Pope, Alexander - continued Bathurst, Charles; health - continued Bettenham, James; 112; eyes, 5, 51, 136, 160; Boreman, T.; Bowyer, fever, 53, 60, 84, 100, 105, William; Cooper, Thomas; 126,136, 176;food Curll, Edmund; 'Dodd, A.'; poisoning, 182; headaches, Dodsley, Robert; Gilliver, 8, 22, 51, 78, 79, 83, 97, 117, Lawton; Knapton, John (and 120,125,132, 133;kidney Paul); Lewis, David; Lewis, problems, 151; piles, 64, 79; William; Lintot, Bernard; rheumatic pain, 92, 93, 149; Lintot, Henry; Motte, spinal deterioration, 157; Benjamin; Morphew, John; throat ailment, 120; urinary Tonson, Jacob, Sr; Tonson, tract, 157, 158; unspecified Jacob, Jr; Wilford, John; illness, 6, 7, 8, 15, 32, 40, 46, Woodfall, Henry; Wright, 48, 51, 52, 54, 57, 64, 73, 79, John 80, 83, 84, 86, 88, 93, 97, religion, 1, 3, 10, 19, 28, 35, 50, 85, 117,120,135, 140;vomiting, 152, 173, 174, 182, 183,184 52 residences: Berkeley Street investment matters, 18, 34, 40, (London), 183; Binfield, 2, 3, 42, 66, 83, 101, 116, 163, 164, 6, 29, 30; Chiswick, 28, 29, 169, 171, 176, 178, 181 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38; Jacobite matters, 10, 26, 28, 29, Oeveland Court (London), 49, 50, 120, 122, 181 15, 18, 23, 24; legal matters, 80, 81, 82-3, 84, Hammersmith, 2; Plough 85, 94, 96, 97, 102, 104, 108, Court (London), 1, 2; 115, 124, 125, 126, 131, 133, Twickenham, xi, 37, 38, 39, 138, 140-1, 142, 153, 154, 40, 41, 43, 49, 68, 69, 70, 80, 156, 158, 160, 161, 164, 165, 88, 90, 99, 103, 105, 107, 108, 169, 172, 173, 174, 175, 179 116, 131, 132, 144, 150, 152, in London, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 169, 174-5, 176, 184 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, Scriblerian projects, 14, 19, 151, 24, 26, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 156, 158, 160 40, 41, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 54, subscription projects, 19, 20, 21, 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 64, 66, 22, 36, 49, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 69-70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 78, 81, 59, 64, 87, 93, 127, 129, 130, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 131, 133, 135, 137, 138 90, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 99, at Twickenham, 40, 42, 45, 46, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 57, 58, 107, 108, 110, 112, 115, 116, 60, 62, 63, 65, 69, 71, 77, 86, 117, 120, 122, 125, 130, 134, 88, 90, 92, 93, 94, %, 98, 136, 140, 145, 146, 147, 148, 100, 107, 108, 110, 111, 112, 149, 150, 152, 154, 155, 156, 116, 119, 120, 122, 123, 125, 157, 158, 160, 163, 165, 166, 127, 129, 131, 132, 133, 135, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 136, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 176, 178, 179, 181 147, 148, 150, 151, 154, 155, oath of allegiance, 28 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 163, political involvement, 29, 144, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 171, 159, 163, 169 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, publishers and printers: see under 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184 Index 211

Pope, Alexander - continued 177; Reading, 161; visits: Abberley, 5; Amesbury, Richmond, 126; Rousham, 117; Avebury, 169; Bath, 23, 77, 95, 116, 127, 151, 178; 27, 31, 77, 78, 119, 120, 139, Sherbourne (Dorset), 54; 140, 152, 153, 154, 162, 163, Southampton, 95, 111, 112, 167-8, 173-4, 177, 178; 118, 126, 133, 139; Stanton Battersea, 179, 180-1, 182; Harcourt, 37, 38; Stowe, 77, Beaulieu, 118; Bevis Mount, 95, 111, 117, 127, 150; 112, 113, 117, 118, 119, 126, Stowell, 77-8; Tottenham, 127, 131, 133, 139; Binfield, 117; Tunbridge Wells, 42; 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, Wattleton Park, 35; West 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, Grinstead, 10, 14; 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33; Bristol, Westminster Abbey, 47; 152, 178; Buckinghamshire, Whiteknights, 10, 11, 24; 59, 139, 150; Burlington Whitton, 88, 101; House (London), 181, 182; Wimbledon, 166; Wimpole, Cambridge, 69; Chelsea 69; Winchester, 112; Hospital, 182, 184; Windsor, 107; Windsor Chiswick, 64, 80, 86, 96, Forest, 155; Windsor Lodge, 101, 111, 116, 172, 183; 172, 173; York, 31 Cirencester, 36, 37, 38, 45, will, 154, 180, 184 77-8, 111, 117, 139, 165, 177; Pope, Alexander: works Combury, 151; Court, 120; Annus Mirabilis (by AP?), 48 Dawley Farm, 72, 76, 94, 96, 'Arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca, 102, 111, 112, 117, 119, 147, The', 19, 20 148; Dover Street (London), 'Atticus' portrait, 46, 48; see also 62, 103, 105, 107, 112, 113, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 123, 149; Down Hall (Essex), Blast upon Bays . .. , A (by AP?), 61, 62, 95; Duke Street 172 (Westminster), 181; Bounce to Fop, 130, 134 Easthampstead, 26, 67; 'clandestine volume' of letters, Essex, 82, 111; Gosfield 156, 157; see also Swift, (Essex), 112; Guildford, 112; Jonathan, letters- AP Hagley, 150; Hallgrove, 160; problem Hammersmith, 2; 'Cloe: A Character', 149, 150 Hampstead (London), 119; Clue to the Comedy of the Non- Hampton Court, 34; Juror, A, 36 Hoddesdon, 62; Kensington Court Ballad, The, 31, 32 (London), 123; Isle of Wight, Craftsman contributions(?), 66 118; Ladyholt (Sussex), 20, 'Dialogue [on William Kent]', 112; Mapledurham, 11; 104 Marble Hill, 89, 148; Dignity, Use and Abuse of Glass• Marlborough, 161; Netley Bottles, The, 25 Abbey, 118; Newbury, 161, Discovery: Or, The Squire Turn'd 169; Oxford, 22, 27, 31, 35, Ferret, The, 66 36, 44, 126, 139, 140, 165; 'Discourse on Pastoral Poetry', Oxfordshire, 59, 139, 150, 33 178; Parson's Green, 92, 101; Donne, The Fourth Satire of . .. , Portsmouth, 139; Prior Park, see Impertinent, The 212 Index

Pope, Alexander: works - continued Epistles (ed. Warburton), see Four Dunciad, The, 14, 40, 60, 62, 69, Ethic Epistles 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 90, 92, Epistle to a Lady, 106, 118, 122, 110, 150, 156, 161, 163, 166, 149, 181, 188 167, 168, 170, 176, 186, 191 Epistle to Augustus, see First Dunciad, The (1742), see New Epistle of the Second Book of Dunciad, The Horace, The Dunciad: An Heroic Poem, The Epistle to Bathurst, 55, 95, 100, (1728), 74, 75, 76, 77 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 123, Dunciad in Four Books, The (1743), 181, 186, 188 108, 174, 175, 176, 179, 181 Epistle to Burlington, 91, 93, 97, Dunciad Variorum, The (1729), 56, 98, 99, 100, 110, 123, 181, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 182, 188 82, 83, 84, 85, 92, 94, 9S-9, Epistle to Cobham, 113, 114, 115, 123, 128 123, 181, 188 'Dying Christian to his Soul, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, xi, 48, 96, The', 15, 88 99, 100, 118, 119, 121, 123, 'Elegy to the Memory of an 181, 186, 188, 189 Unfortunate Lady', 11, 33, 'Epistle to James Craggs', 36 40, 44, 100 'Epistle to Miss Blount, on her 'Eloisa to Abelard', 29, 33, 39, Leaving the Town after the 40, 100 Coronation', 23 'Epigram' ('Behold! ambitious of 'Epistle to Robert, Earl of the British bays'), 91 Oxford', 45 'Epigram' ('When other Ladies'), 'Epitaph for Isaac Newton', 89 89 'Epitaph, On Charles Earl of 'Epigram Engraved on the Collar Dorset . . .', 97 of a Dog', 149 'Epitaph on General Henry 'Epigram on Burnet and Withers', 91 Duckett', 82 'Epitaph on Himself', 149, 163, 'Epigram on Cibber's Declaration 165-6 .. .', 172 'Epitaph on James Craggs', 67, 'Epigram on James Moore 71 Smythe', 81, 89 'Epitaph on James Moore 'Epigram (On Lopping Trees in Smythe', 89 his Garden)', 162 'Epitaph on John Knight', 131 'Epigram on Roome', 81 'Epitaph on Lady Kneller', 59 'Epigram: On Seeing the Ladies 'Epitaph on Mr Elijah Fenton', at Crux-Easton .. .', 112 89, 90, 91 'Epigram: To One who Wrote 'Epitaph on Mr Gay', 110, 111, Epitaphs', 130 131, 137 'Epilogue to Jane Shore', 16 'Epitaph on Mr Rowe', 38, 177 'Epilogue to The Captives', 52 'Epitaph on Mrs Corbet', 88 Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I, 'Epitaph on Simon Harcourt', 44, 142, 143 48,55 Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II, 'Epitaph on Sir Godfrey Kneller', 143-4, 145 87 'Epilogue to The Wife of Bath', 17 'Epitaph on the Monument of 'Episode of Sarpedon, The', 6, 7 Robert Digby', 83, 87, 88 Index 213

Pope, Alexander: works - continued 171, 172, 187, 188; see also Epitaphs on John Hewet and Iliad and Odyssey translations Sarah Drew, 37, 38 Horace his Ode to Venus, 136 Essay on Criticism, An, 5, 6, 9, 10, 'Horace, Satyr 4. Lib. I. 11, 12, 15, 39, 72, 176, 179, Paraphrased', 100 180, 181, 182 Horatian poems, 82, 85, 100, 'Essay on Homer', 171, 172 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 117, Essay on Man, An, 85, 87, 91, 95, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 130, %, 100, 106--7, 107, 108, 109, 131, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 141, 142, 143-4, 145, 146, 116, 120, 121, 123, 128, 129, 147, 149 134-5, 141, 143, 146, 148, 'Hymn Written in Windsor 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 157, Forest, A', 35 158, 160, 167--8, 170, 172, Iliad translation, 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 173, 175, 179, 180, 181, 182, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 188, 192 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, Ethick Epistles and Imitations of 42, 45, 56, 80, 92, 153, 154, Horace, 104 186, 187 'Fable of Dryope, The', 34 Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the 'Fable of Vertumnus and Second Book of Horace, see Pomona, The', 13 Sixth Satire of the Second Book 'Farewell to London in the Year Imitations of Horace: Sat. I.iv, 100; 1715, A', 25 Sat. II.i, 105, 106, 107, 108--9, First Epistle of the First Book of 110, 117; Sat. II.ii, 108, 109, Horace Imitated, The, 142 117, 118, 119, 186; Sat. II. vi, First Epistle of the Second Book of 142; Ep. I.i, 142; Ep. I. vi, 141; Horace, The, 131, 132, 134, Ep. I. vii, 149; Ep. II.i, 132, 135, 137, 138 134, 135, 137, 138; Ep. II.ii, First Satire of the Second Book of 130, 134, 135, 136; Odes, Horace Imitated, The, 105, IV.i, 136; Sermones, l.ii, 117, 106, 107, 108--9, 110, 117 118, 121, 122, 186; see also Four Ethic Epistles (1748), 176, under individual titles 182, 184 Impertinent, Or a Visit to the Fourth Satire of . .. Donne, The, Court, The, 113 see Impertinent, The 'Inscription' ('Nymph of the 'From Boethius', 34 Grot'), 58 Full . .. Account of . .. Curll, A, 'January and May', 5, 6 29, 68 Key to the Lock, A, 23, 25, 158, 164 Further Account of . .. Mr Curll, 'Letter to a Noble Lord, A', 114, A, 31 115 God's Revenge Against Punning, 31 Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and Guardian contributions, 15, 16, Several of his Friends (1737), 17, 18, 19 123, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, Gulliver poems, 68 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, Hadrian poems, 15, 88 140 'Heathen to his Departing Soul, Letters of Mr Pope (unauthorised, The', 88 1735), 122, 123-4, 125, 126, Homer translations, 19, 20, 52, 127, 129, 133, 134, 135, 137, 72, 77, 79, 92, 101, 102, 170, 138 214 Index

Pope, Alexander: works - continued One Thousand Seven Hundred and Letters Written by Mr Pope and Thirty-eight, Dialogue II, see Lord Bolingbroke, to Dean Epilogue to the Satires, Swift (CurD, 1736), 134, 135 Dialogues II 'Lines on Bounce', 183 'OnJ.M.S. Gent', 83 'Lines to King George', 157 'On Lying in the Earl of Literary Correspondence, see Letters Rochester's Bed at (1735) Atterbury', 151 Martinus Scriblerus, see Memoirs of 'On Mr M-re's Going to Law Martinus Scriblerus ...', 88 Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, 'On Queen Caroline's Death• 49, 151, 158, 160, 163, 164 Bed', 140 'Messiah', 13, 15 'On Silence', 13 Moral Essays, 95, 98, 105, 117, 'On the Benefactions in the Late 12~1, 122, 123, 134, 179, Frost', 154 186; see also Epistle to 'On the Candidates for the Bathurst; Epistle to Burlington; Laurel', 91 Epistle to Cobham; Epistle to a 'On the Countess of B[urlington] Lady Cutting Paper', 103 Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence 'On the Statue of Cleopatra', 34 for Thirty Years, see Letters Pastorals, 4, 5, 6, 11, 14, 17 (1735) 'Peri Bathous', 69, 72, 73, 77, 88 Narrative of Dr Robert Norris, The, Poems and Imitations of Horace 18 (1739), 145--6, 147 Narrative of the Method . . . Letters 'Postscript to the Odyssey', 63, 64 of Mr Pope ..., A, 124 'Preface to Shakespeare's Works', New Dunciad, The (1742), 121, 55,56 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 175, 'Preface to Works' (1717), 31, 33 187 'Presentation Verses to New Letters of Mr Alexander Pope Nathaniel Pigott', 65 (CurD), see Letters of Mr Pope 'Prologue, for the Benefit of Mr (1735) Dennis', 114, 163 Ode for Musick, on St Cecilia's 'Prologue to Achilles', 106, 107 Day, 18, 40, 89 'Prologue to Cato', 17, 45 'Ode on Solitude', 7, 34 'Prologue to Lady Jane Gray' (by Odyssey translation, 43, 46, 47, AP?), 25 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 'Prologue to Sophonisba', 87 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, Proposals for a Translation of 66, 67, 68, 69, 80, 81, 88, 92, Homer's Iliad, 19, 21 128, 139, 187 'Proposals for a Translation of 'Of a Lady Singing to her Lute', Homer's Odyssey', 56, 57 34 Prose Works, vol. I (ed. Ault), 196 'On a Fan', 14 'Psalm XCI', 34 'On a Lady who P-st at the Rape of the Lock, The (1714, 5- Tragedy of Cato', 20 canto version), 18, 19, 20, 'On Dennis', 95 21, 22, 25, 27, 75, 76-7, 188 One Thousand Seven Hundred and Rape of the Locke, The (1712, 2- Thirty-eight, see Epilogue to canto version), 11, 12, 13, the Satires, Dialogue I 14, 15, 188 Index 215

Pope, Alexander: works - continued 'To the Author of a Poem 'Receipt to Make an Epick entitled "Successio" ', 13 Poem', 18 'To the Earl of Burlington', 132

'Receipt to make Soup', 66 To the Ingenious Mr Moore 0 0 0' 29 Roman Catholick Version of the 'Tom Southeme's Birth-day First Psalm, A, 30, 33 Dinner at Ld Orrery's', 169 'Rondeau' ('You know where'), 'Two Chorus's to the Tragedy of 8, 62 Brutus', 49 'Sapho to Phaon', 12 Universal Prayer, The, 132, 143 Second Epistle to the Second Book of 'Verbatim from Boileau', 163 Horace, The, 130, 134, 135,136 'Verses in Imitation of Cowley', Second Satire of the Second Book of 34 Horace, The, 108, 109, 117, 'Verses in Imitation of Waller', 34 118, 119, 186 'Verses Occasion' d by Mr Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Addison's Treatise of Horace, The, 149 Medals', 67 Sixth Epistle of the First Book of 'Verses on a Grotto by the River Horace, The, 141 Thames at Twickenham', Sixth Satire of the Second Book of 158, 162, 179 Horace, An Imitation of the, 'Verses to be prefix' d before 142 Lintot's Miscellany', 13 Sober Advice from Horace, 117, 'Wife of Bath Her Prologue, 118, 121, 122, 186 The', 19, 20, 164 'Sonnet Written upon Occasion Windsor-Forest, 5, 15, 16, 17, 23, of the Plague', 138--9 25, 32, 42, 75 Spectator contributions, 13, 14, 15 Works (1717), 31, 32, 33, 119, 'Sporus' portrait, 99, 189; see also 123, 128 Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot Works (1736), 126, 128, 130, 133 Stanton Harcourt lovers' Works, vol. II (1735), 36, 111, epitaphs, see 'Epitaphs on 119, 123, 125, 128, 131, 148 John Hewet and Sarah Works, vol. II, pt II (1738), 149 Drew' Works (annotated by 'Stanzas from the French of Warburton), 180, 181, 182, Malherbe', 34 184 Statius his Thebaid, 5, 7, 13 Works (edo Warburton, 1751), Strange but True Relation how 114, 192

Edmund Curll 0 0 0' A, 42 Works in Prose, vol. II (1741), 158, Temple of Fame, The, 8, 14, 15, 24, 163, 164, 165, 167 27,32 'Wrote by Mr Po in a Volume of Three Hours after Marriage, 31, 32, Evelyn on Coins', 123; see 33, 186 also AP, editorial work 'To a Lady with the Temple of Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Fame', 24 Infallibility (1729), 81 'To a Young Lady with the Pope, Edith (nee Turner, AP's Works of Voiture', 13 mother), 1, 37, 38, 46, 49, 52, 'To Mr Jervas, with Fresnoy's 54, 55, 56, 60, 61, 68, 69, 77, Art of Painting', 28 79, 80, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 94, 'To Mrs MoBo on her Birth-day', 96, 98, 99, 101, 105, 106, 111, 51,55 112, 122, 190 216 Index

Pope, Magdalen, see Rackett Rackett, Michael, 51, 147, 185 Pope: The Critical Heritage (Barnard), Radnor, Lord, see Robartes, Henry xiii, 38, 40, 65, 74, 75, 76, 92, Ralph, James, 76 122, 143, 144, 152, 170, 175, Raynham (now Rainham, Essex), 181 130 Popiild, The (1728), 76 Reading (Berkshire), 161 Popp upon Pope, A (1728), 75 Read's Weekly Journal, 131 Portland, Duke of, see Bentinck, Reflections Critical and Satyrical upon William 0 0 0 An Essay Upon Criticism Portraits of Alexander Pope, The (Dennis), 10

(Wimsatt), 196 'Reflexions sur 0 0 0 la Preface 0 0 0' Portsmouth (Hampshire), 139 (Dacier), 38, 49 Post-Boy, The, 20, 124 Religion, La (Racine), 173 Posthumous Works (Wycherley), 83, Remarks on Mr Pope's Rape of the 84,85 Lock (Dennis), 76-7 Post-Man, The, 25, 26, 30 Remarks upon Cato (Dennis), 18 Present State of the Republick of Remarks upon Mr Pope's 0 0 0 Homer Letters, The, 89 (Dennis), 23, 32, 76 Prince of Wales, see George II, Rentcomb (Gloucestershire), 45 King of England; see also Rich, John, 72, 106, 110, 194 Frederick Louis, Prince of Richard III (Shakespeare), 167 Wales Richardson, Jonathan, Jr, 121 Prior, Matthew, 39, 41, 51, 193 Richardson, Jonathan, Sr, 46, 58, Prior Park (Somerset), 166, 168, 96, 97, 100, 104, 106, 111, 115, 174, 177, 194 121, 135--6, 138, 139, 141, 146, Progress of Dulness, The (1728), 75 154, 171, 172, 191 Progress of Wit, The (Hill), 87 Richardson, Samuel, 148, 163, 175, Proper Reply to a Lady, A (1733), 109 181 Provoked Husband, The (Cibber), 114 Richmond (Surrey), 39, 194 Publick Register; or The Weekly Riot Act, 26 Magazine, The, 162, 163 Riskins (or Riskings or Richings), Pulliam (Dorsetshire), 89, 127 52, 89, 194 Pulteney, William, 66 Rival Modes, The (Moore Smythe), 67 Robartes, Henry, 3rd Earl of Queensberry, Duchess of, see Radnor, 180 Douglas, Catherine James, 66, 82 Queensberry, Duke of, see Roberts, 84 Douglas, Charles Roberts, John, Anastasia, later Queen's Square (London), 141, 171 Robinson, Countess of Peterborough, 130, 131, 132, 133, 139 Racine, Louis, 173, 174 Rochester, Earl of, see Wilmot, Rackett, Charles, 2, 51, 78, 190, 191 John Rackett,Henry, 91, 96,105,185 Rochester, Lady, see Hyde, Jane Rackett,John, 183,185 Rocque, John, 196 Rackett, Magdalen (nee Pope, AP's Rogers, Robert Wo, xi, 196 half-sister), 2, 39, 78, 83, 89, Rollinson, William, 185 96, 116, 131, 153, 156, 160, 185, Roman History, The (Hooke), 93, 190, 191 132, 141 Index 217

Roman Revenge, The (Hill), 143, 144, Sawney and Colley (1742), 173 145, 146, 147 Scot, Mr (Lord Burlington's Roome, Edward, 81 gardener), 144 Roubiliac, Louis Fran<;ois, 166 Scots Magazine, 151 Rousham Park (near Slough, Scribleriad, The (by 'Scriblerus', Buckinghamshire), 77, 95, 117, 1742), 173 127, 151, 178, 188, 194 'Scriblerus', 173 Rowe, Nicholas, 16, 19, 25, 27, 38, Scriblerus Club, xi, 3, 5, 21, 22, 23, 73, 177, 191 37, 49, 54, 73, 74, 186, 188, 190 Rysbrack, Michael, 80-1, 111, 174 Searle, John (AP's gardener), 185 Second Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Sacheverall, Henry, 7 Pope (Cibber), 175 Sackville, Charles, 6th Earl of Sequel of Mr Pope's Law Case, The Dorset, 97 (1733), 107 StJames's Evening Post, 55, 87, 124, Sewell, George, 58 125, 131 Seymour, Frances, Countess of StJames's Journal, 48 Hertford, 143 StJames's Palace (London), 21, 80, Shakespeare, William, 43, 44, 45, 139 46, 47, 48, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, StJames's Square (London), 155 61, 62, 74, 78, 84, 96, 97, 109, StJohn, Frances, Lady 141, 167, 170, 175, 178, 179, Bolingbroke, 102 191 StJohn, Henry, Lord StJohn Shakespeare monument, 56, 141 (Bolingbroke's father), 170, 171 Shakespeare Restored (Theobald), 62, StJohn, Henry, Viscount 74, 78 Bolingbroke, 13, 17, 21, 22, 24, Shakespeare's Works (ed. 51, 52, 57, 63, 65, 72, 76, 84, Hanmer), 175, 179 85, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 105, Shakespeare's Works (ed. 106, 111, 112, 113, 116, 117, Theobald), 96, 97, 109, 114 119, 120, 124, 134, 142, 143, Sheffield, John, Earl of Mulgrave, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, Duke of Buckingham and 150, 152, 158, 170, 171, 176, Normanby, 33, 34, 42, 44, 45, 177, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184, 46,48,49,50,53, 177,191 185, 186, 193 Sheffield, Katharine, Duchess of StJohn's College, Oxford, 35, 170 Buckingham, 44, 46, 59, 177 StMartin's-in-the-Fields (London), Sherburn, George, xiii, 26 136 Sheridan, Thomas, 70, 71, 77 St Mary Hall, Oxford, 155 Shrewsbury, Duke of, see Talbot, St Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin), 17, Charles 18, 99, 145, 149, 191 Siege of Darru;scus, The (Hughes), 41 Salvini, Antonio Maria, 35 Silhouette, Etienne de, 128, 135, Samson Agonistes (Milton), 47 153 Satirical Epistle to Mr Pope (1740), Sloane, Sir Hans, 170, 171 155 Smart, Christopher, 179, 180 Savage,Richard,99, 133,163,170, Smedley, Jonathan, 77, 78 173 Smythe, James Moore, see Moore Savile, Henry, Marquess of Smythe, James Halifax, 102, 103, 105 Some Memoirs of . .. Mahomet Sawney (Ralph), 76 (1727), 67 218 Index

Some Remarks upon . . . The Dunciad Supplement to the Profound, A (Dennis), 83 (Concanen), 77 Sophia, Elector of Hanover Supplement to the Works of Alexander (mother of George I), 3, 22 Pope, A (1758), 32 Southampton, 95, 111, 112, 117, Swift, Deane, 149 128, 130, 132, 133, 139, 193 Swift: His Life, his Works, his Times South Sea Co., 9, 10, 40, 41, 42, 43, (Ehrenpreis), 196 164, 187 Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745), xi, 2, Spectator, The, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 15, 16, 24, 186, 190, 191 26, 30, 37, 48, 49, 51, 52, 60, Speculist, The (Concanen), 89 64, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, Spence, Joseph, xiii, 63, 64, 69, 87, 76, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 90, 126, 139, 180, 183, 184, 191 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 102, 103, Spencer, Robert, 2nd Earl of 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, Sunderland,44 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118-19, Spenser, Edmund, 17 120, 121, 127, 129, 130, 133, Stanhope, Philip Dormer, 4th Earl 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, of Chesterfield, 105, 119, 173, 142, 144, 145, 149, 150, 151, 177, 178 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, Stanton Harcourt (Oxfordshire), 161, 162, 163, 164, 171, 187, 37, 38, 194 188, 191, 193 State Dunces, The (Whitehead), 111, biography of, 110 112 books received and sent, 106, State Poems (1716), 29 114, 119 Stationers' Company, 75, 140---1, created Dean of St Patrick's 182 Cathedral, Dublin, 17, 18 Statius, 5, 7, 13 death of: 'Stella', 72; 'Vanessa', Steele, Sir Richard, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 51 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 191 declared of unsound mind, Stonor, Thomas, 34, 35 171 Stopford, James, 67 in Dublin, 22, 26, 48, 49, 52, 64, Stowe (Buckinghamshire), 77, 95, 68, 70, 83, 86, 97, 102, 108, 111, 117, 126, 127, 150, 173, 130, 137 191, 194 gifts to friends, 64-5 Stowe: The Gardens ... of Viscount guardianship, 154, 171 Cobham (West), 97 health, 70, 82, 83, 93, 94, 120, Stowell (Gloucestershire), 77-8 129, 130, 134, 138, 142, 171 Strafford, Earl of, see Wentworth, legal problems, 55, 94, 115 Thomas letters- AP problem, 129--30, Stratford-upon-Avon 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, (Warwickshire), 56 139, 145, 151, 155, 156, 157, Suffolk, Countess of, see Howard, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, Henrietta 164, 165, 166 Sunderland, Earl of, see Spencer, ordained priest, 2 Robert pastoral controversy, 29--30 Sun Fire Office, 164, 169 Pilkington problem, see Supplement to One Thousand Seven Pilkington, Matthew Hundred and Thirty-Eight political matters, 20, 21, 55, 84, (1738), 145 87 Index 219

Swift, Jonathan- continued Proposal for the Universal Use publishing matters, 60, 64, 81, of Irish Manufacture, A, 42; 86-7, 93, 103-4, 109-10, 157, Publick Spirit of the Whigs, 20; 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164 Reflections on the Conduct of recommendations and letters of the Allies, 11; Short View of introduction, 102, 103-4, Ireland, A, 72; Sixth Satire of 116, 145, 149 the Second Book, An Imitation Scriblerian matters, 19, 73, 76 of the (with AP), 142; Tale of a Scriblerus club member, xi, 21, Tub, 2, 3; Temple's Letters, 2; 37, 191 Verses on the Death of Dr will, 156 Swift, 97, 145; Works (1734), visiting England: London, 18, 119, 120, 121 64, 67-70; Twickenham, 63, 68, 69; Upper Letcombe, 21, Talbot, Charles, Duke of 22 Shrewsbury, 22 works: 'Argument against Tartuffe (Moliere), 35 Abolishing Christianity, Tatler, The, 6, 8, 9, 186, 191 An', 9; 'Baucis and Taverner, Edward, 2 Philemon', 9; Bounce to Fop, Tempest, Mrs, 4 130; 'Cadenus and Vanessa', Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 47 67; 'Description of a City Temple, Sir Richard, Viscount Shower, A', 8; 'Description Cobham, 55, 77, 88, 94, 111, of the Morning, A', 6; 113, 115, 116, 125, 126, 150, Drapier's Letters, 47, 53, 54, 156, 165, 173, 181, 182, 190, 55, 60, 85; Epistle to a Lady 191, 194 ... Heroick Style, An, 115; Temple, Sir William, 2 Gulliver's Travels, 14, 44, 52, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, see 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, Drury Lane (Theatre) 73, 190, 191; History of the Theobald, Lewis, 31, 62, 67, 74, 78, Four Last Years of the Queen, 85, 96, 108, 109, 114, 179, 191 64, 74, 76, 139; Intelligencer, Theocritus, 17 The, 74; Journal to Stella, 16; Thomas, Elizabeth, 64, 69 'Lady's Dressing Room, Thompson, Dr (AP's last The', 115; Letters to and from physician), 184 Dr J. Swift (1741), 159, 160, Thomson, James, 87, 113, 142, 145, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165; Libel 146, 147 on D[octor] D[elany], 86, 87; Three Hours after Marriage (AP, Miscellanies (AP-Swift), 67, Gay, Arbuthnot), see AP, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, works 79, 80, 81, 82, 86, 102, 103, Thuanus, 102 104, 160, 163, 165, 166, 167, Thurmond, John, 55 171, 190; Miscellanies in Verse Thurso (Scotland), 142 and Prose (1710), 9; Modest TickeD, Thomas, 14, 15, 17, 21, 26, Proposal, A, 84; On Poetry, A 27, 72, 191 Rhapsody, 114; On the Death Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 47 of Mrs Johnson, 72; Project for 'Timon's Villa', 98, 99, 101, 110; see the Advancement of Religion, also Brydges, James and AP, 6; Proposal for Correcting the works: Epistle to Burlington English Tongue, A, 13; Tit for Tat (1733), 114, 115 220 Index

Toft, Mary (the 'Rabbit-woman'), Twickenham Hotch-Potch, The (1728), 66 74 Tom Jones (Fielding), 186 Two Epistles to Mr Pope (Young), 86 Tom o'Bedlam's Dunciad (1729), 82 Twyford (Hampshire), 2 Tonson, Jacob, Sr, 4, 6, 19, 20, 21, 26, 42, 45, 93, 97, 101, 128, 191 Ufton Nervet (Berkshire), 188 Tonson, Jacob, Jr, 44, 45, 57, 96, Union Treaty (England and 97, 100, 128, 164, 191 Scotland), 4 Tonson's Miscellany, see Poetical Universal Spectator, The, 111, 174, Miscellanies 177 To the Falsely Celebrated British Upper Letcombe (now Letcombe Homer (Morrice), 170 Bassett, Berkshire), 21, 22, 195 Tottenham (Wiltshire), 117 Utrecht, 12, 16 Townshend, Charles, Viscount, Utrecht, Treaty of, 16 130 Uxbridge (Middlesex), 57 Toy Shop, The (Dodsley), 106 Tragedy of Sophonisba (Thomson), 87 Vanhomrigh, Esther ('Vanessa'), TrinitY College, Cambridge, 186 51 True Character of Mr Pope, A Vernon, Admiral Edward, 174 (Dennis), 30 Verses ... to the Imitator of the First Trumbull, Lady Judith, 52, 54, 63, Satire of the Second Book of 89 Horace (Montagu and Hervey), Trumbull, Sir William, 4, 5, 17, 20, 107-8 24, 26, 192, 193 Vertue, George, 27,56 Truth: A Counterpart to . . . Essay on View of the Necessitarian or Best Man (Ayre), 148, 150 Scheme (Dudgeon), 148 Tryal of Colley Cibber, The (1740), Vindication of Mr Pope's Essay on 157 Man . .. (Warburton), 152, Turner, Elizabeth (AP's aunt), 7 153, 157, 170, 172 Turvey (Bedfordshire), 128 Vindication . . . relating to ... Lord Twickenham (Middlesex, location Clarendon's History (Atterbury), of AP's villa), xi, 37, 39, 40, 42, 97-8 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro), 17, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 75,88 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 78, 85, 86, Voltaire (Fran<;ois Marie Arouet), 88, 90, 92, 93, 94, 96, 99, 100, 53, 65, 113 101, 102, 107, 108, 110, 111, 116, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123, Wales, Prince of, see Frederick 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, Louis, Prince of Wales 132, 133, 138, 139, 143, 144, Wales, Prince of, see George II, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, King of England; see also 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, Frederick Louis, Prince of 158, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, Wales 165, 166, 167, 169, 171, 172, Waller, Edmund, 14, 34 173, 174, 178, 179, 180, 182, Walmoden, Amelie von, 131 183, 184, 189, 193, 194 Walpole, Sir Robert, 44, 47, 50, 60, Twickenham Edition of the Poems of 66,69-70, 79,80,83,88, 109, Alexander Pope, The (Butt), xiii, 147, 148, 159, 160, 167, 169, 37,83, 109,167-8,184 189, 190, 192 Index 221

Walsh, William, 4, 5, 9, 192 guardian), 154, 155, 156, 157, Wanley, Humphrey, 59 158, 159, 161, 162, 163 Warburton, William, 114, 146, 147, Whitton (Middlesex), 65, 88, 101, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 138, 195 155, 156, 157, 160, 164, 165, Why How Now, Gossip Pope? ... 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, (Henley), 176 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, Wilford, John, 107,108,110,115 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, Wilks, Robert, 103 184, 185, 192 William III, King of England, 1, 2, Ward, Edward ('Ned'), 79, 83 3, 192 Warton, Thomas, the elder, 133 Will's coffee-house (London), 4, 5 Water Music (Handel), 34 Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, Watson, James, 140-1, 142 151 Wattleton Park (Oxfordshire), 35 Wimbledon (Middlesex), 166 Watts, Isaac, 143 Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, Weekly Journal, 25, 26, 29 55, 69, 83, 113, 195 Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, Wimsatt, William Kurtz, 196 80 Winchelsea, Lady, see Finch, Anne Weekly Journal, or Saturday's Post, Winchelsea, Lord, see Finch, 57 Heneage Weekly Miscellany, 110, 111 Winchester (Hampshire), 2, 112 Weekly Packet, 38 Windsor Forest, 155, 160 Welsted, Leonard, 32, 87, 99, 100, Windsor Lodge (Windsor, 108 Berkshire), 172, 173, 174 Wentworth, Thomas, 3rd Earl of Withers, General Henry, 91 Strafford, 59, 60 Wogan, Charles, 4 Wesley, Samuel (the elder), 87 Woodfall, Henry, 128 Wesley, Samuel (the younger), 78, Wood's coinage, 47, 53 79, 80, 127 Worcester (Worcestershire), 4 West, Gilbert, 97, 126, 170, 171, Works of John Sheffield, Duke of 185 Buckingham (ed. Curll), 46, 48, West Grinstead (Sussex), 10, 14, 49 187 Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Westminster Abbey, 38, 47, 54, 71, Mulgrave (ed. AP), 49, 50, 53 87, 101, 105, 106, 111, 131, 141, Works of the Learned, see History of 177 the Works of the Learned Weston, Elizabeth, 11 Wright, John, 170 White-hall Evening Post, The, 37, 45, Wycherley, William, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 55,57 10, 28, 33, 36, 83, 84, 85, 124, Whitehead, Paul, 111, 112 192 Whitehill House (Binfield), 2, 3, 193, 195 York (city), 31, 103 Whiteknights (Berkshire), 10, 24 Young, Edward, 26, 72, 86 Whiteway, Martha (Swift's Young, Gabriel, 3